Species Oliarus kampaspe Kirkaldy, 1906

Oliarus kampaspe Kirkaldy, holotype male

© Copyright Birgit Löcker, Orange Agricultural Institute.

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• Oliarus kampaspe Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [398].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♂ (coll: viii.1904; abdomen is missing but the pin carries a label with a ♂ symbol), Kuranda, Queensland.

Introduction

This species was regarded as a nomen dubium by Löcker et.al. (2006) since the only known specimen, from Kuranda, North Queensland, lacks an abdomen. The specimen does carry a label indicating that it is a male.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: phloem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Nymph might be phloem feeder or fungivore.

Diagnosis

Colour. Body mid brown, carinae paler except for some carinae on mesonotum; legs light brown to mid brown; forewing hyaline white, with brown marks along crossveins, veins light brown, apically darker, tubercles indistinct, concolorous with veins, pterostigma light to mid brown. Morphology. Body length: ♂ 5.5 mm. Head: Vertex (total length) 1.7 times longer than wide; basal emargination obtusely angled. Postclypeus with evanescent to well-developed carinae. Rostrum not reaching hind coxae. Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Mesonotum with evanescent carinae. Forewing 3.1 times longer than wide; costa with 2 tubercles; 9 apical cells. Male genitalia: Unknown. (Löcker et.al. 2006)

Diagnosis References

Löcker, B., Fletcher, M.J., Larivière, M.-C. & Gurr, G.M. 2006. The Australian Pentastirini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zootaxa 1290: 1-138 [42]

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